The secret word was “Leviticus”, and was guessed correctly by Ryan Pappan on the chat room. He magnanimously gave up his prize to Melissa DeRosia, who was live on the show when he guessed the right answer.

If you are interested in receiving flyers for any upcoming show (to put up at your church, seminary, grocery store, on your wall next to David Cassidy), please contact Brian Merritt at brian@godcomplexradio.com. You can also send Brian ideas for upcoming shows and offer to be a guest. We have some big names lined up for the next few weeks, including Nadia Bolz-Weber (the Sarcastic Lutheran) next week and Diana Butler Bass on 6/15.

One quick administrative note – BlogTalkRadio has released a new chat room application, which we will be testing on Monday the 25th. We hope that this fixes the problems that we’ve experienced with the old one recently. If not, we’ll find an alternative.

Yes, we will have an episode on May 25 – Memorial Day in the United States. The show will be all about YOU. We are doing our first program with call-ins by listeners, and devoting the entire show to what you have to say. Who knows? Maybe Bruce and Carol will head out to lunch and leave you to run the show!

The number to call is (646) 595-4385. We ask that you do not call in before the program starts so that the staff can get their phone connections established first.

In Episode 3, Bruce, Carol, and special guest Fritz Gutwein spoke about the biblical concept of Jubilee and it’s applicability to today – particularly in the areas of debt relief. Fritz also spoke of his experiences working on these issues in Haiti.

The episode may be heard by clicking on the appropriate show on the right of our website.

On Monday, May 18, Bruce and Carol will be speaking about Jubilee with Fritz Gutwein, the Haiti Reborn coordinator for the Quixote Center in Hyattsville, MD.

They will be exploring the biblical theme of jubilee in the old and new testaments, and how it can be applied to debt relief today. Fritz will be speaking of his work specifically with Haiti debt relief.

Episode 2 asks the question “Is Your Pastor Smart?”. Bruce and Carol discuss the value of an educated clergy with each other and Lee Hinson-Hasty, of the PC(USA) Office of Theological Education. The discussion also includes questions about the debt load carried by most seminary graduates and the dichotomy of the same area having out of work pastors and using Commission Lay Pastors.

We’ve just completed our first program of the God Complex radio show with Bruce Reyes-Chow and Carol Howard Merritt. The first episode was about Christian identity, and included discussions of the meaning and value of “membership”.